Title: Athens from Cleisthenes to PericlesAuthor: Fornara, Charles WPublished: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: Classics | Classical History | ClassicalPoliticsPublisher's Description: By the mid fifth century B.C., Athens had become the most powerful city-state in Greece: a rich democracy led by Pericles that boldly gained control of an empire. Athens's strength under Pericles was the result of a complex interaction of events from the time of Cleisthenes. Fornara and Samons unrav . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Early Greek lawAuthor: Gagarin, MichaelPublished: University of California Press, 1989Subjects: Classics | ClassicalPolitics | LawPublisher's Description: Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities.Similar Items

Title: The school of history: Athens in the age of SocratesAuthor: Munn, Mark HendersonPublished: University of California Press, 2000Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | ClassicalPoliticsPublisher's Description: History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.). This remarkable age produced such luminaries as Socrates, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Moral vision in the Histories of PolybiusAuthor: Eckstein, Arthur MPublished: University of California Press, 1995Subjects: Classics | History | ClassicalPolitics | Political Theory | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Arthur Eckstein's fresh and stimulating interpretation challenges the way Polybius' Histories have long been viewed. He argues that Polybius evaluates people and events as much from a moral viewpoint as from a pragmatic, utilitarian, or even "Machiavellian" one. Polybius particularly asks for "impro . . . [more]Similar Items